A gene cluster for chlorate metabolism in Ideonella dechloratans

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 5585-5592

  Danielsson Thorell, Helena ^a   Stenklo, Katarina ^a   Karlsson, Jan ^a   Nilsson, Thomas ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; DECHLORINATION; DECOMPOSITION; ENZYMES; GENES; MOLYBDATE MINERALS;

GENES ENCODING;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHAPERONE; CHLORATE; CHLORATE REDUCTASE; CHLORIDE; HEME; IRON; MOLYBDOPTERIN; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ENZYME; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; GENE CLUSTER; IDEONELLA DECHLORATANS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLORATES; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IDEONELLA DECHLORATANS; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROKARYOTA; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 0141592715     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.9.5585-5592.2003     Document Type: Article

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